Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . ?.: :^.. < 4 41 VI NATURES PROTECTION 49 of malarial fever, but no sensible person who hasever had fever or seen it in others v^ould everbeHeve that it comes from drinking is in the atmosphere—one breathes fever ;one does not necessarily drink it. When thewater is corrupted, the air is also corrupted, andto filter the one and not the other is an operationthe sense of which I personally cannot see. It has ever been my experience, and that also ofothers, that the fewer precautions one takes, themo
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . ?.: :^.. < 4 41 VI NATURES PROTECTION 49 of malarial fever, but no sensible person who hasever had fever or seen it in others v^ould everbeHeve that it comes from drinking is in the atmosphere—one breathes fever ;one does not necessarily drink it. When thewater is corrupted, the air is also corrupted, andto filter the one and not the other is an operationthe sense of which I personally cannot see. It has ever been my experience, and that also ofothers, that the fewer precautions one takes, themore one relies on Nature to take care of oneinstead of on impracticable devices—the betterfor ones health in the end. I do not mean bythis that one should go and drink dirty water toavoid fever,—far from it,—but if the water is dirtythe best plan is not to drink it at all, whetherfiltered—or, to be accurate, passed through a filter—or not, or made into soda-water ! One fact is certain, that if one goes througha fever district one can take all the precautionsin the world, but if
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